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Honestly, I'm super impressed with how they did this on Switch 2. The team behind the port should be absolutely proud of their efforts.

This is a Day 1 for me.

I'm probably gonna go see it tonight after work. We'll see!

Happy 40, Mario. Even if we don't get a proper game out this year... I still want Super Mario Maker 3 in its place. :3

Honestly, as long as it's /mostly/ stable? I'm fine with it.

My PC running it was /maybe/ able to do 20 fps or less, if that.

I was super-excited until I heard I needed ANOTHER subscription to play on Switch 2... which means my potato on my PC version is probably still stuck in "bad rig purgatory." ;_;

So, we're just never getting Bulma in the Namek battle suit, Chi-Chi, the movie villains, or other people from the Tournament of Power, are we?

As a romantic at heart, after two games of building up Bayonetta and Jeanne, ending up with Bayonetta and Luka was really deflating for me, "multiverse" or not.

Nice! Can we, like, not have Cole in this movie, though? He was the worst part of the first movie.

Nice!

Still waiting on those Kingdom Hearts games to come off the Cloud, though. ;_;

I would say either the first or the worst: Legend of Zelda 1 or Tri-Force Heroes. If you remake Tri-Force Heroes, then maybe make it less... awkward?

But I'm hoping Zelda 1, honestly. Maybe give it a modern-Zelda coat of paint and make it 3D-style.

@nervous-noodles Oh, Rosalina looks GREAT in the movie! They butchered her by nerfing her power and having her getting walled by Bowser JUNIOR of all characters.

I still can't believe how badly they butchered Rosalina. Miyamoto, does your grudge know no bounds?

At least Fox looked great!

They REALLY are making me want that Super Mario Maker 3... or at least a Super Mario Maker 2 Switch 2 Edition with Mouse Controls.

I know I'm on a diet, but I guess it's my wallet that is gonna be losing a few extra pounds.

I mean, a ton of us are still probably gonna go see it, right?

The return of the Freedom Fighters!

(inb4 people claim that Sega can't use them because of Ken Penders, they were created by DIC and owned entirely by SEGA, get yo facts right, Internet, and don't rely on AI Google searches for your retorts, it's old hat at this point.)

I try to avoid leaks, but, this one felt like it was entirely unavoidable.

Now I've gotta sit through streamer reactions of "THE LEAKS WERE REAL!" I swear, those are the fakest reactions ever.

But, yeah, it sucks when the surprise gets ruined. There's only one answer.

Super Mario Maker 3 will have to be the surprise game now. :3

I did a whole rundown, but, it's apparently too long, so, I'll just go over a few stand-outs.

Machop - MY BOY! What the heck, NL faithful?

Skiploom - The entire line is useless, and this is the middle evolution (and the least cute of the three), so, I get it.

Pineco - THESE THINGS ARE JERKS!!

Granbull - No excuses, you failed this one, NL faithful. Granbull is a good boy who is great on your team, especially when it became a fairy type!

Whismur - Oh, come on, this one's cute!

Meditite - FAIL! The Meditite line is great! Look at it!!

Illumise - Yeah... I hate her and Vulbeat, honestly... wait, who voted for VOLBEAT over ILLUMISE?! At least Illumise is pleasant to look at.

Metang - Let's be honest, we're just enduring this thing before we get to Metagross... but I still like it! Joust nose!

Staravia - NOOOOO! All three of these are GOAT'd birds! ;_;

Kricketot - Kricketune is already a weak Pokemon, but Kricketot doesn't even get the benefit of that epic cry. DeleleleleleleWOOOOOOP!

Gabite - Wow, really? Catch one of these early and your playthrough is made. You failed me, NL faithful.

Basculin - JUSTIFIED!

Frillish - Their only crime is being stuck in a region with a lot of better water AND ghost types. Even then, I love these things.

Alomomola - For a long time, my least favorite Pokemon... then Bruxish entered the chat. I get it. But it's a good fish! It helps other Pokemon! I blame the expression.

Lampent - Look, just because these things stole your souls doesn't mean you can hate them for it, and this is one of the much better middle evolutions out there.

Meinfoo - I can't get over the default pose for this thing being both arms out like a zombie. That alone should have gotten it a few votes.

Scatterbug - Look at it! It's cute!

Trumbeak - Middle evolution, doesn't have Toucannon's biblical levels of hatred for us all.

Barraskewda - Wait, seriously?! Guys, use one. It's attack is S-tier! Move first, hit hard, lots of coverage, and it's pretty cool looking! Get one and win the game.

Just give us Super Mario Maker 3 and let us handle the Mario 40th Anniversary ourselves.

Right on time, Hangman!

Watch Nintendo come out with a digital only version that's cheaper and keep the backwards compatible one the price it is.

Sooooo... Lucario x Gengar OTP? I'd have thought Clefable x Gengar, but, what do I know?

So, they're just not working on the offline version at all then, huh?

I voted for Europe just because I don't have to look at Chris' dumb face on that one.

Holding out for Dragon Quest Builders still!

Just when I thought my brain was ready to accept that Angry Birds can be forgotten... thanks Sega. -_-;

(I actually liked it back in the day, then it just became too much, too many games, too many spin-offs, too many movies, too much.)

Donkey Kong + Kirby = YEAH THAT'S OP!!

Zebra still has the best theme imo, tho. Zeebraaaaaa~ Zeebraaaa~ Zeeebraaaaa~!!! (Zebra, zebra, zebra, zebra!)

Glubbit? I'm calling it a Blowfrog.

Sheena alone puts the NA/EU, cover over the top, but the addition of the summon spirits in the background are just awesome.

Well, I mean, I went digital since Game Key Card yuck, so...

I'm not gonna lie? You lost me when you rated ZA the worst when BDSP, Let's Go, Sword & Shield, and Ruby/Sapphire exist. Also, FireRed/LeafGreen that low? C'mon, now.

Aw dang... Abigail's gonna get jealous when I try to do all of Sandy's heart events... X'D

I'm optimistic. I've thoroughly enjoyed playing FF7 Remake on Switch 2, even if it's technically an inferior version. Frame rates and polygonal crunching was never that important to me, so, if it looks a little worse and plays as the others did, I'm happy with it. At some point, the poly-crunch just begins to become inconsequential.

And if I do wanna play a technically superior version, I have the games on PC. I just... need a PC that'll... actually... play it...

...

I forgot to read the tech specs when they hit Steam... ;_;

**PREDICTION!**

A Pokémon DATING SIM! At long last! Date the PokéMommies of your dreams in a whimsical world!

The only catch? You play as a Trubbish. :3

/s

Uhhhh… wow! I wonder if they did this in error, or they just decided not to let it be a shadow drop. Either way… MINE!”

I played the heck out of FireRed back in the day. It’ll be nice to have another go at these, LeafGreen this time for me.

Squirtle was my first ever. It'll always be my favorite (or one of its evolutions, depending on the day!).

Whelp! There goes the programming and graphics budget! Hope y'all liked Sword & Shield.

Was the Virtual Boy... AHEAD OF ITS TIME?!?!

Honestly, I don't care about the multiplayer stuff. I'm more interested in the single player stuff. I wish they'd put more emphasis on that. We reclusive hermits need love too!

Dwarf and Sandy!

There's something fishy going on here. I don't know if one country's standards are holding it back, but I do need to call foul on the "separate SKU" thing. We've seen it.

There's still a lot of outstanding issues here. The lack of communication ahead of time. Who is actually making this call. Why we didn't learn about it until after pre-orders were locked in. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Nintendo's call for the censorship, but then you get games like Cyberpunk 2077 that can be released as-is, and physically to boot. Then you get separate physical and digital contents for games like Perky Little Things in Europe, and wonder why this can't get the same treatment.

I'm going to guess that the licensed music is a sticking point here, and that there'd need to be a whole new licensing agreement with everything to get a different physical edition, or totally uncensored edition, done. At least in part.

Nintendo... get over it. Start putting responsibility on the parents and stop being afraid of some of the naughty stuff.

Fix this.

Honestly, I think it's still very silly. Censorship options should be a choice of the consumer, the game is clearly not for kids (check the rating, it's what it's there for), and either Nintendo is being heavy-handed or AdHoc severely underestimated their potential audience on Switch 2... or both.

GAME OVER

RETURN OF GANON

And that laughter in the background accompanied by a dark shadow... XD

So many great collections of terrible Nickelodeon games coming out... ah well, score one for preservation nonetheless!

Love to see it! Maybe we'll get more games added in in the future... but I think we already have Aladdin and Gargoyles in collections, I don't think Mighty Ducks or Gummi Bears had a game, and Lion King is definitely in a collection and would probably be too much of a stretch for Timon & Pumbaa representation.

There's literally games with "Hentai" in the title flooding the eShop, and games that actually have no censorship on Switch 2 period (Cyberpunk 2077 has been mentioned several times and that's my example too), yet this is censored? Why do I get the funny feeling this was also AdHoc's call? Maybe to get advertising on the platform, it had to be censored? I dunno. It's a bummer.

I highly doubt it's going to be Reunion. That was already the name of the remake of Crisis Core. It'd be too confusing.

If we go by the soundtrack theory, it's probably gonna be "Return."

Love this game! I hope we have photo mode here, if not now, then at some point.

Ah, Nintendo, you can be so head-scratchingly petty sometimes... ^^;

@Brilliant_Bird_Man Technically, Robotnik is faster than Sonic too, so, it's not outside the realm of possibility. ^^;